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<!-- mcp-name: io.github.modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch -->

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Score

71/100

88,484 stars

10,424 forks

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The Open Source Drop Lens

Connects your AI assistant to the open web. Point it at any URL and it pulls back clean, readable content, converting HTML to markdown so the model can actually process it.

You get web fetching with automatic content extraction, robots.txt compliance, and configurable request headers. Setup is one line in your MCP config. No API keys, no dependencies beyond the server itself. Completely free, no underlying service costs.

Maintained by the official Model Context Protocol team at Anthropic. This is the reference implementation for web access. If your AI workflow touches URLs at all, install this first. It is the baseline.

Cost Breakdown

fully free

Free Tier

The MCP server itself is completely free and open source.

Self-Hosted

Runs locally or on your own infrastructure.

Paid

No paid tier. The underlying service may have its own pricing.

Free and open source. The underlying service may have its own costs.

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